DDB Recruits, Promotes Creative Veterans

Attracts Martin Agency’s Fandetti to New York as Executive CD
NEW YORK–DDB Worldwide has hired three creative executives and promoted three staffers in an effort by co-creative officers David Nathanson and Steven Landsberg to bolster work on Compaq and several new accounts.
Brian Fandetti, 52, formerly of The Martin Agency in Richmond, Va., and Tan Shen Guan, 37, formerly a regional executive creative director at J. Walter Thompson in Hong Kong, have joined DDB in New York as executive creative directors.
Xavier Rodon, 30, formerly a global creative director at Advico, a division of Young & Rubicam in Zurich, Switzerland, was hired as a creative director, one of three at the agency.